Bromium
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Bromine
This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Bromium in every book at once →
Keynotes
Scrophulous blondes. Constrictions, glandular induration or membranous formations. Weak and easily overheated, then sweaty and sensitive to drafts. .................... Head congested, fears a stroke. Acrid, burning coryza. Nosebleed. Face seems drawn to a point at nose. Flatus from vagina. Inhaled air seems smoky, cold or raw. Lungs feel coated with down. Wants to take a deep breath, but it excites cough. Suffocative fits; he starts up choked with croupy or wheezing cough, or with palpitation. Asthma. Spasm of glottis. Asthma of sailors going ashore. Deep hoarseness, < if heated. Diphtheritic croup. Colds start in larynx; go upward (Merc. Sep.) and downward. Thick, white expectoration. Even a small goitre oppresses. Nervous palpitation. Cardiac hypertrophy. Slow, glandular enlargement. Boring in bones.
Worse
WARM: DAMPNESS. Overheating. Room. Chilled while hot. Sea bathing. Dust. Drafts. Until midnight.
Better
Nosebleed (vertigo, head, chest). At sea. Motion.
Region
LARYNX. RESPIRATION. Heart. Circulation. Glands: Parotid. Thyroid. Ovaries. Mammæ.
Relationships
Related: Lach. Samb.
What the other books say about Bromium
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Bromium in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Bromium in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Bromium in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Bromium in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Bromium — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/bromium. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.